PTA Community Fun-Day is in the press!

CPD Learning Breakfast Booking Form (1)

CPD Learning Breakfast Booking Form

New CPD Policy and CPD Request Form 2009/10

The new Welling School CPD policy and accompanying CPD Request Form is posted here for you to download and read. Please use this form from now on to request any CPD. Thank you

Nina

Welling School CPD Policy


CPD PreCourse Assessment Form

The Teacher Effectiveness Programme

Steve Smith from the LA kindly furnished me with this useful website link. The Teacher Effectiveness Programme (TEEP) was set up in 2002 by the Gatsby Charity Foundation to develop a model of effective teaching and learning drawn from research and best practice. They have created a model for Learning and Teaching that is interesting and if you sign-up to their site you can access some high quality lesson plans and resources. Terry O'Dea from Bexley LA said:

"At the recent Triple Science seminar I attended, I came across TEEP for getting a powerful model of teaching and learning going in a school/authority - as in Kingston-upon-Hull and Birmingham. TEEP seems to incorporate all of the NS aspects we try to deliver but as a coherent, generic model. The power of the model, according to Hull LA colleagues, is that all teachers in a school use the same model regardless of subject area and so a common vocabularly is possible across the departments. Easier for leading and monitoring teaching and learning for the SLT/ML also. It is also cross-phase in application - ie. a universal model.
Hull colleagues characterised the outcomes from applying TEEP emphases as 'more independent and active learning going on in schools across departments'.

Here's a link for you to visit:

http://www.teep.org.uk/teep_model.asp#tfl

Year 12 and 13 Visual Arts 'Students of the Month'

Aimee has done a fantastic summer project for textiles, she shows real enthusiasm and dedication to the subject so far.

Aimee has made a keen and enthusiastic start to AS photography, producing some really good independent work at home. She has also worked hard extending the workshop tasks out of lesson.

Aimee has made an impressive start to her AS Textiles course. She produced an excellent summer project which showed a high level of commitment and a huge amount of work. She presented this very well in the group crit., talking very articulatly about her ideas. She has taken full advantage of all the workshops, developing her work from these and documenting each stage. She used flickr to show her work and uses all the facilities and time available to her full advantage. I can't wait to see what she does in the first project!


Layla has used the summer to consolidate her already strong command of the subject through a rigorous personal investigation. We look forward to seeing her continuing to fulfill her potential.

PTA Fun Day Photographs

I apologise for not getting these posted on the blog sooner but here you go. There is a link too to see the full set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21680689@N03/sets/72157622410682770/

A tutortime Activity

Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

This is a really excellent clip I showed to my year 11 tutor group about the power of willpower and the benefits of delayed gratification.They enjoyed it and it was a fairly good discussion also!

David Paige